Lithuania's Plymouth-based Olympic champion Ruta Meilutyte then set a new championship record time of 28.81secs in the women's 50m breaststroke. She will face Jamaica's Alia Atkinson in Thursday's final, but British hope Sophie Taylor failed to qualify.

And in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay final, Netherlands claimed gold with a new world record of 7:32.85 - more than three seconds faster than China's previous best set in Dubai in 2010.

In the rest of Wednesday's semi-finals, GB's Georgia Davies was the fourth-fastest in qualifying for the women's 100m backstroke final on Thursday, but Adam Barrett narrowly missed out on a place in the men's 100m butterfly final, as did Chris Walker-Hebborn in the men's 100m backstroke.